Sleep on left side of bed to achieve greater success

One wishes for something better towards the end of the year than someone or something that gives us false hope. Alright, a fair bit of optimism, something that ups the chin a wee bit, warms the cockles of the heart sort of thing is fine. Kind of flows with the shiny packages and bright lights flavour of the days.

But downright quackery in the form of 'research' offering quick-fix solutions to life's vast and innumerable problems? Sure, all too often, we do get these random and weird surveys and pieces of research. But this one takes the cake.

Reports say researchers (who else?) somewhere in Britain have found that the key to all-round happiness, the veritable holy grail of success in life, is to sleep on the left side of the bed. There aren't any more details, no further inputs. That's all there is to it.

Sleep on the left-hand side of the bed, say these scintillating surveyors, and life will be more cheerful and less stressful, you will be more positive, calmer in a crisis, and much more confident than all those pathetic sods who sleep on the right-hand side (who, by the way, also supposedly tend to wake up in a foul mood much more often). Further, the lefties also tend to have better jobs and better pay packets than the right hand-side lot.

If it's that good, then who's to know what more can accrue? One could possibly gradually become more good-looking, even reverse ageing maybe, besides also having better luck with everything else in life! And all it ever needed was to just turn over to the other sidea¦ What is needed now, therefore, is a mass crossing over, as it were.

Rather easy for people who are single. But how do partners and the married lot deal with this potentially explosive situation? "Honey, can you move to the other side of the bed?" would take on a whole different meaning.